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kwame ture visits manhattan’s upper west side, and other stories
I was born and raised on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. My stomping group consisted of a seven-block walk to Zabar’s, that Jewish cultural mecca of smoked whitefish spread, cherry strudel, and Eastern...
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does advocacy work? (part 1)
International Studies Quarterly‘s March issue includes an insightful article on advocacy effectiveness, human rights policy, and “naming and shaming.” The authors, Amanda Murdie and David Davis, assess...
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does advocacy work? (part 2)
Editor’s Note: This is the second part of a two-part series on advocacy effectiveness and typologies of human rights mobilization. Check out the first part here. Internal Policy: “Bureaucracy” is a...
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the moral limits of confronting the bully, and calling his bluff
Gerard Prunier, who, in another life, penned a decent history of Sudan’s Darfur conflict, has published a Luttwakian op-ed in today’s New York Times, calling on the international community to “give war...
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is time on our side? (part 1)
Last month, Jay Ulfelder posted a characteristically insightful perspective on time-sequenced selection bias, which, in the midst of the “Congress defunds political science research” debacle, remains...
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is time on our side? (part 2)
In yesterday’s post, I discussed the varied gaps in our understanding of historical atrocities trends, and the need for a multi-level perspective on the ways in which atrocities have occurred within...
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changing gears
As of this post, Securing Rights will look different. Other commitments have–and will continue to–restrict my ability to publish as flexibly, creatively, and widely as I’ve attempted to over the past...
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reimagining violence: civilian peacekeeping in atrocity response policy
Danny Hirschel-Burns is a junior at Swarthmore College, in Swarthmore, PA. He blogs at The Widening Lens, and you can follow him on Twitter at @DHirschelBurns. While military responses to mass...
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are international policy interventions in mass atrocity events effective?
As I mentioned in my hiatus post, I’ve taken the past few months to delve into my undergraduate thesis. Initially, I intended to center my thesis research on the role of “leverage” in mass...
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the powers of human rights advocacy (or, happy almost birthday, #kony2012)
It’s been almost one year since Invisible Children released its #Kony2012 video, which sparked both viral enthusiasm and visceral controversy. At the time, I published a critical perspective, which to...
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a tale of two hashtags
Boko Haram, in northeast Nigeria, and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), somewhere near the Central African Republic, share several common factors. They are: Destructive violence: In the years since its...
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